Hair-curler.



No. 668,794. Patented Feb. 26; l90l. w. CONNOLLY.

HAIR CURLER.

(Application filed Mar. 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CONNOLLY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

HAI R-CU RLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,794, dated February 26, 1901.

Application filed March 6. 1900. Serial No. 7477- N m el- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CoNNoLLY, a citizen of England, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Curling- Irons; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same. 7

My invention relates to a device for curling and dressing the hair.

It consists in details of construct-ion, which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of the holder. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the tube A detached. of the same.

My invention relates to curling-irons; and it consists of the parts and the constructions and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The curlingdron proper consists of a tube A, of any suitable metal or other material, and this tube is adapted to slide upon a holder 2. This holder is preferably made-of some non conducting material or it maybe provided with extensions or handles=3,,.projecting beyond each end of the tubular sleeve A, so that when the heated sleeve has been aflixed to the holder the operator can turn it and use it in any desired manner without the handscoming in contact with the hot iron.

The sleeve or iron, so called, is preferably slightly tapered, and the holder'2 is similarly tapered, so that when the iron is slipped onto the holder it will fit sufficiently closely,

. and it'may be locked to the holder-in any suitable manner. As hereshown, the holder is formed with a lug or projection 4 near one end,

and the sleeve has-a slot v5, which acts similarly toa bayonet-joint, sothatwhen the holderhas been inserted into the sleeve by a slight turn the. lug will engage with the slot in such a manner as to prevent the sleeve from slip- Fig. 4 is an end view ways formed, to prevent their being unduly heated by the contact of the heated sleeve.

The end 3, which projects from the larger end of the holder 2, is here shown as slidable through a handle 6, which is of non-conducting material. This handle may be moved backwardly to the rear end of the extension 3 while the holder is being inserted into the tubular sleeve A, and after the sleeve is looked upon the holder this handle 6 may be moved forward, so as to cover the interlocked ends, 'a countersunk opening being made in the handle for this purpose.

In orderto hold the ends of the hair so that the strand can be coiledabout the heated iron, a clamp of any suitable form may be either affixed to the iron itself or to some part of the handle. In the present case I have shown a form of clamp 7 fixed to the handle- 6, so that when the iron is to be used the ends of the hair maybe held by this clamp, and the hair can then be coiled around the heated tube. In some cases'where the hair is very short it may be desirable to form a clamp, as

atS, uponthe body of the' tube itself, the action being essentially the samein either case.

\ Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

means for locking the two together, an endprojecting axially in line with the holder and an independent handle slidable upon said end and having a socket into which the con tiguous end of the sleeve and locking device may be passed.

4. In a hair-curling device the means for the sleeve whereby the ends of the hair may be 10 heating the tube adapted to be inserted thereheld While the strand is being coiled around in, a means for locking the two together, said the tube. holder having a projecting end serving as a In witness whereofI have hereunto set my handle by which to rotate the device, a nonhand.

heat-conducting handle slidably mounted on WILLIAM CONNOLLY. the first-named handle and adapted to cover Witnesses: the interlocked portions of the holder and S. H. NOURSE,

tube, and a clampfixed adjacent to or upon JESSIE C. BRODIE. 

